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how to make a symlink
> I seem to be mising some basic features (like search).
Is slocate installed? If so, it's invoked with "locate
somestring" (minus the quotes). Otherwise, you can probably
use "find," invoked in the same way.
> One of these is the ability to make links to files.
ln -s /path/to/original/file /path/to/symlink
> Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in bin ought to
> suffice until I learn more.
If it's not in your /usr/bin, I'd suggest putting it in
~/bin, or else /usr/local/bin. If the former directory
doesn't exist, you should probably create it.
Amy
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> somethin2coolwrote:
> > I seem to be mising some basic features (like search).
On 28.04.07 18:25, Amy Templeton wrote:
> Is slocate installed? If so, it's invoked with "locate
> somestring" (minus the quotes). Otherwise, you can probably
> use "find," invoked in the same way.
afaik, findutils contain 'locate' too. And they are installed by default
(unless this changed in etch)
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
> search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to
> make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has
> it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in bin
> ought to suffice until I learn more.
If you're not using gnome or KDE, why do you need a symlink? And DO NOT
put one in anything exepct /usr/local/bin. From an xterm type
seamonkey. If your window manager has a menu, add a menu item.
What basic feature like search? Search what? Try apropos symlink. Or
just man symlink.
Good luck.
Doug.
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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
>
> What basic feature like search? Search what? Try apropos symlink. Or
> just man symlink.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Doug.
>
>
The ability to search for files. I now have catfish. There were errors
when running make install, but it seems fine. more than fine infact:
brilliant.
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
> search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to
> make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has
> it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in bin
> ought to suffice until I learn more.
what do you mean it hasn't registered a command?
if you type seamonkey in a terminal, does it work?
or are you talking about your menus?
you're using xfce right? you can edit the menus in
X->xfce->settings->menu editor.
or are you trying to put button on your taskbar? Your question is not
clear.
A
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
>> not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
>> search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to
>> make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has
>> it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in bin
>> ought to suffice until I learn more.
>
> what do you mean it hasn't registered a command?
>
> if you type seamonkey in a terminal, does it work?
>
> or are you talking about your menus?
>
> you're using xfce right? you can edit the menus in
> X->xfce->settings->menu editor.
>
> or are you trying to put button on your taskbar? Your question is not
> clear.
>
> A
As ALWAYS, I mean exactly what I say, and not something similar.
Typing seamonkey in terminal does nothing:
bash: seamonkey: command not found
I know there is a menu editor. In it is a single reference to include
'system' which is not much help, and I cannot find the file it is
talking about. Although I am close (not that I have installed a search
program - Catfish)
No I am not trying to put a button on my task bar, and yes I know how to
do that.
I have added seamonkey as my prefered browser, but making symlinks is
still going to be something I need to know.
And while we're at things which are impossible to find out, I need to
know how to mount a logical partition. (currently the only partition in
an extended partition I would describe as sda4)
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On Sunday 29 April 2007 08:07, somethin2cool wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> >> not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
> >> search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to
> >> make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has
> >> it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in bin
> >> ought to suffice until I learn more.
> >
> > what do you mean it hasn't registered a command?
> >
> > if you type seamonkey in a terminal, does it work?
> >
> > or are you talking about your menus?
> >
> > you're using xfce right? you can edit the menus in
> > X->xfce->settings->menu editor.
> >
> > or are you trying to put button on your taskbar? Your question is not
> > clear.
> >
> > A
>
> As ALWAYS, I mean exactly what I say, and not something similar.
>
> Typing seamonkey in terminal does nothing:
>
> bash: seamonkey: command not found
>
> I know there is a menu editor. In it is a single reference to include
> 'system' which is not much help, and I cannot find the file it is
> talking about. Although I am close (not that I have installed a search
> program - Catfish)
>
> No I am not trying to put a button on my task bar, and yes I know how to
> do that.
>
> I have added seamonkey as my prefered browser, but making symlinks is
> still going to be something I need to know.
>
> And while we're at things which are impossible to find out, I need to
> know how to mount a logical partition. (currently the only partition in
> an extended partition I would describe as sda4)
A suggestion to make most of this easier is to use midnight commander as a
portion of your system management tools. If you are unfamiliar with it, or or
not sure if it is installed already, just do 'apt-get install mc' it will
allow you to do most of your requirements from a console based gui. It has an
excellent search function , can create both 'hard' & "soft' symlinks, allows
mounting of any registered drive, allows file editing, & much,much, more.
Best Wishes!!
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John W. Foster
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somethin2cool wrote:
> Typing seamonkey in terminal does nothing:
>
> bash: seamonkey: command not found
The Debian version of seamonkey is called 'iceape'.
You should install iceape-browser, e.g. with synaptic.
A symlink will not be required, since /usr/bin/iceape will be there.
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:07:31PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> >>not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
> >>search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to
> >>make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor
> >>has it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in
> >>bin ought to suffice until I learn more.
> >
> >what do you mean it hasn't registered a command?
> >
> >if you type seamonkey in a terminal, does it work?
> >
> >or are you talking about your menus?
> >
> >you're using xfce right? you can edit the menus in
> >X->xfce->settings->menu editor.
> >
> >or are you trying to put button on your taskbar? Your question is not
> >clear.
> >
> >A
>
> As ALWAYS, I mean exactly what I say, and not something similar.
no you didn't. what you said was your missing some basic features and
one of them is linking to files. The actual problem you're having
though is that you can't get an executable to work the way you
expect. These are different things with different resolutions.
others have addressed what I think may be your issue, so I will bow
out of this discussion.
[...]
>
> And while we're at things which are impossible to find out, I need to
> know how to mount a logical partition. (currently the only partition in
> an extended partition I would describe as sda4)
man mount
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:07:31PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
>>>> not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
>>>> search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to
>>>> make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor
>>>> has it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in
>>>> bin ought to suffice until I learn more.
>>> what do you mean it hasn't registered a command?
>>>
>>> if you type seamonkey in a terminal, does it work?
>>>
>>> or are you talking about your menus?
>>>
>>> you're using xfce right? you can edit the menus in
>>> X->xfce->settings->menu editor.
>>>
>>> or are you trying to put button on your taskbar? Your question is not
>>> clear.
>>>
>>> A
>> As ALWAYS, I mean exactly what I say, and not something similar.
>
> no you didn't. what you said was your missing some basic features and
> one of them is linking to files. The actual problem you're having
> though is that you can't get an executable to work the way you
> expect. These are different things with different resolutions.
>
> others have addressed what I think may be your issue, so I will bow
> out of this discussion.
>
>
> [...]
>> And while we're at things which are impossible to find out, I need to
>> know how to mount a logical partition. (currently the only partition in
>> an extended partition I would describe as sda4)
>
> man mount
>
> A
No (for goodness sake, you people are supposed to be smart), I asked
what I wanted to know. I can start the program fine. Hence having been
using it for the last few days? This group is more annoying than helpful.
How about debian-fact-exchange@
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somethin2cool wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:07:31PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
>>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
>>>>> not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features
>>>>> (like search). One of these is the ability to make links to files.
>>>>> I want to make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a
>>>>> browser, nor has it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to
>>>>> seamonkey in bin ought to suffice until I learn more.
>>>> what do you mean it hasn't registered a command?
>>>> if you type seamonkey in a terminal, does it work?
>>>> or are you talking about your menus?
>>>>
>>>> you're using xfce right? you can edit the menus in
>>>> X->xfce->settings->menu editor.
>>>> or are you trying to put button on your taskbar? Your question is not
>>>> clear.
>>>>
>>>> A
>>> As ALWAYS, I mean exactly what I say, and not something similar.
>>
>> no you didn't. what you said was your missing some basic features and
>> one of them is linking to files. The actual problem you're having
>> though is that you can't get an executable to work the way you
>> expect. These are different things with different resolutions.
>> others have addressed what I think may be your issue, so I will bow
>> out of this discussion.
>>
>> [...]
>>> And while we're at things which are impossible to find out, I need to
>>> know how to mount a logical partition. (currently the only partition
>>> in an extended partition I would describe as sda4)
>>
>> man mount
>>
>> A
>
> No (for goodness sake, you people are supposed to be smart), I asked
> what I wanted to know. I can start the program fine. Hence having been
> using it for the last few days? This group is more annoying than helpful.
>
> How about debian-fact-exchange@
>
>
>
Now that was the one message I was waiting for.
Bye. something2cool must be too cool for me, because it just hit my
kill file. I tried to help, really I did.
I will grant that some people here can be quite annoying, but that is no
reason for such an attitude. something2cool started off that way.
Maybe use xubuntu and complain to them when it doesn't work as expected.
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somethin2cool wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:07:31PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
>>> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
>>>>> not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features
>>>>> (like search). One of these is the ability to make links to files.
>>>>> I want to make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a
>>>>> browser, nor has it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink
>>>>> to seamonkey in bin ought to suffice until I learn more.
>>>> what do you mean it hasn't registered a command?
>>>> if you type seamonkey in a terminal, does it work?
>>>> or are you talking about your menus?
>>>>
>>>> you're using xfce right? you can edit the menus in
>>>> X->xfce->settings->menu editor.
>>>> or are you trying to put button on your taskbar? Your question is not
>>>> clear.
>>>>
>>>> A
>>> As ALWAYS, I mean exactly what I say, and not something similar.
>>
>> no you didn't. what you said was your missing some basic features and
>> one of them is linking to files. The actual problem you're having
>> though is that you can't get an executable to work the way you
>> expect. These are different things with different resolutions.
>> others have addressed what I think may be your issue, so I will bow
>> out of this discussion.
>>
>> [...]
>>> And while we're at things which are impossible to find out, I need
>>> to know how to mount a logical partition. (currently the only
>>> partition in an extended partition I would describe as sda4)
>>
>> man mount
>>
>> A
>
> No (for goodness sake, you people are supposed to be smart), I asked
> what I wanted to know. I can start the program fine. Hence having been
> using it for the last few days? This group is more annoying than helpful.
>
> How about debian-fact-exchange@
>
>
>
please stop nagging at people of great value. you behave like a
four_year old.
reg.,
steef
steef
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On Sunday 29 April 2007 13:06, somethin2cool wrote:
> > man mount
> No (for goodness sake, you people are supposed to be smart),
Says who!? ;)
> I asked what I wanted to know. I can start the program fine. Hence having
> been using it for the last few days? This group is more annoying than
> helpful.
Why do you want to know how to start the program if you have been using it for
the last few days? Wait, don't answer that! ;)
> How about debian-fact-exchange@
Or,
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:06:14PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
>
> No (for goodness sake, you people are supposed to be smart), I asked
> what I wanted to know. I can start the program fine. Hence having been
> using it for the last few days?
Your original post:
> not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features
>(like search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want
>to make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor
>has it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in bin
>ought to suffice until I learn more.
you wrote "... which has not registeres as a browser, nor has it
registered a command..." which implies that the program is not working
properly. But that is an assumption so we'll move on.
Then you wrote:
>Typing seamonkey in terminal does nothing:
>
>bash: seamonkey: command not found
which really implies that you're having trouble launching the
program. The reasons for this are varied from something like: maybe
the program is not installed; to somthing like: maybe the executable
is not in your $PATH.
however, your original post mentions putting a symlink in /bin, so
we've got a kind of confusing situation here as you generally don't
make a symlink without a target (yes I know, you can do it, and its
great for automount etc...). I suspect (though its only a guess and
since I'm not smart, its likely to be wrong) that the actual problem
here is:
"I've installed seamonkey from upstream/source and it is not properly
showing up in the alternatives system or being recognised by my DE as an
installed and viable alternative browser. How would I go about making
this work?"
to which you would get a number of informed and intelligent
replies. Now, is a symlink part of the solution? probably, one way to
do it. This looks to me like a classic example of asking for the
solution by proposing a solution instead of stating the problem. Its
common around here.
Maybe you should try more clearly stating the actual problem you are
facing, as its still not really clear. It could be, for example, that
the seamonkey issue is just one of several relating to the lack of a
"make link here" type option on a right click in xfce. Remember that
xfce is a lightweight DE. That means some features that the devs of
xfce consider to be extraneous are left out to help the DE be more
lightweight.
> This group is more annoying than helpful.
then, please, go somewhere else.
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be mising some basic features (like
> search). One of these is the ability to make links to files. I want to
> make a link to seamoney, which has not registered as a browser, nor has
> it registered a command. Thus putting a symlink to seamonkey in bin
> ought to suffice until I learn more.
>
If you want seamonkey functionality (and virtually identical code)
that works and is supported by Debian, apt-get install iceape
If you want to build seamonkey from scratch, you've a learning curve to
climb because its large and convoluted.:)
[Snip large explanation of Mozilla trademark policy, DFSG, permissions
apparently granted and revoked, security fixes and eventual renaming:
all of which will be resolved, I hope, by the time we next release :) ]
man ln
I suspect that you normally want ln -s to create soft links.
The trick to remember is that you're linking what you've already got
to what you want to call it or where you want it to be.
ln WHAT I HAVE to WHAT I WANT
So:
cd /bin ; mv cp cp.original
ln -s /usr/local/my_funky_copy /bin/cp
substitutes a symlink for your locally modified binary for the system
binary.
ln -s /bin/cp /usr/local/my_funky_copy
means that you've just overwritten all your hard work on my_funky_copy
with the system binary :(
Hope this helps,
Andy
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